The Repopulation Is About To Get Populated

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Super-ambitious sandbox MMO The Repopulation has raised a bit of cash on Kickstarter, and that’s helping to propel them forward into their alpha test. The game is intent on doing things a little differently, allowing players to mess about crafting and building bases, and not just questing and all that usual MMO fare. Being set on an alien planet where human forces are struggling against both the locals and each other, it’s looking disturbingly like doomed sci-fi MMOs Earthrise and Tabula Rasa, but perhaps these chaps can get it right. They’re only a small team, and taking on something vast, so they could do with your help – assuming, that is, that an open-ended space MMO with both PvE and PvP possibilities actually grabs your interest. Sign up for the alpha test just here.

Trailer south of here.

You know, I can’t get the innuendo implicit in the title of this MMO out of my head. A game called “The Repopulation” can really only be about one thing. And thats, well, makin’ babies. Eh? Not seen any of that in the trailers so far.

Yea, actually, the best one of them is haven&hearth imho, but it has been abandoned by the devs even before they began working on Salem. It has been a lag-fest for years now, its almost unplayable. Also, its a pest, that most sandbox-games are in java.
I think the main reason that most of sandbox mmos suck is bad developer choices. Doubt many indie devs know how to elaborade game-design decisions.
It feels more like one of them had an idea, the others were like “well ok, he’ll be frustrated if we don’t do it, so lets do this and he’ll be happy.”

From a brief look at the website, it seems to be a bit of a hodge-podge. There’s definitely references to SWG in there (even overt mentions on the website), but I also note the odd bit of WoW here and there and some other stuff, all jumbled together – never managed to get Tabula Rasa to work, so no idea if any inspiration was taken from there.

That was my first real MMO. Man, what an enjoyable, atmospheric and complex experience it was. I used to have a blast just by simply exploring the various and vast Planets with my Wookiee BH/CH. SOE sure done fucked it up. lol i still remember the mass exodus that followed after the NGE hit. What a bunch of fucking out of touch morons they are. They exhibited the same type of dismissive and arrogant behavior during the DCUO’s beta and its short lived retail status. No wonder it went free to play. The UI was fucking horrible and it still is from the looks of it.

I am looking forward to playing Planetside 2 but i fear for its future. They’ll probably fuck it up with a pay to win business model.